Media Centre tips and tricks

System monitor (Temperature, fans etc)
Mother Board Monitor

Boot performance
BootVis MS tool to monitor boot times


RDP

Slawdog for standy via RDP

XP Auto logon

Modem Caller ID
http://www.modem-help.co.uk/help/clid.html
http://www.ainslie.org.uk/callerid/cli_faq.htm
YAC http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=435861&rl=1